Shell Games: Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300-1650)

Shell Games: Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300-1650)
ISBN-10
0772720231
ISBN-13
9780772720238
Series
Shell Games
Category
Deception
Pages
334
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Authors
Victoria University, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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Printed Sources Appleby , Joyce , Lynn Hunt , and Margaret Jacob . Telling the Truth About History . New York : Norton , 1994 . Bouwsma , William J. John Calvin : A Sixteenth - Century Portrait . Oxford : Oxford University Press ...

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